Ely Valencia is a Mexican-born visual storyteller based in Seattle. Her work moves between documentary, editorial, and portrait photography, always guided by long observation and emotional attunement. She documents life itself: families, artists, brands, and makers, drawn to the rituals and quiet moments that reveal how people truly live and how the world holds together.

• 2026 Scholarship — Documentary Practice: Visual Storytelling, ICP New York
• 2025 Group exhibition — Shutter the Light collective, Seattle
• 2024 Professional Photography Certificate, New York Institute of Photography
• 2024 The Intimate Portrait workshop with Michal Chelbin, ICP
• 2023 Commissioned by Yuri “Yureeka” Yasuda — R100 Tokyo Magazine & BLLNR Magazine
• 2017 Seeing Through Photographs certificate, Museum of Modern Art.

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